to be the "founding father" of ethnobotany in the Neotropics. When Aublet died at Paris in 1778, he left part of his plant collection to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, though the latter possessed it for only two months before he too died. It was eventually acquired by the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in 1953. Aublet’s herbarium, drawings, and notes were purchased by Joseph Banks and are now archived at the British Museum of Natural History. References Further reading External links View digitized titles by Fusée Aublet in Botanicus.org Histoire des plantes de la Guiane Francoise by Aublet at the Biodiversity Heritage Library. French explorers French taxonomists Ethnobotanists 1720 births 1778 deaths Botanists active in South America Plant collectors French pharmacists People from Salon-de-Provence 18th-century explorers 18th-century French botanists